edWebcasts

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Digital Promise.
The webinar recording can be accessed here.

Join us for an exciting edWeb podcast with experienced educators as they explore the skills and strategies teachers need to develop as they support their students’ creativity and innovation in addressing local issues and preparing them for real-world learning. Listeners learn how to integrate real-world learning by using the Challenge-Based Learning framework in their daily lessons. Listeners are also introduced to the Ciena Solutions Challenge, a global design challenge that invites students and educators to address local issues by integrating digital tools and technologies into their products.

The educator presenters share their individual experiences and insights from their participation in the Ciena Solutions Challenge, discuss the challenges they face in integrating real-world learning, and provide tips and techniques for educators to implement in their own classrooms. Additionally, teachers receive free and accessible resources to help them incorporate the Challenge in their classrooms.

This edWeb podcast is of interest to middle and high school teachers, librarians, education technology leaders, and after-school educators.

Digital Promise
Digital Promise's mission is to accelerate innovation in education to improve opportunities to learn

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Age of Learning.
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Join us for a dynamic and insightful edWeb podcast as we dive into the future of multilingual education with a focus on translanguaging and biliteracy. This session brings together leading experts to explore innovative, real-world approaches that are transforming classrooms around the country.

What you learn:

• Innovative Approaches and Technologies: Discover cutting-edge methodologies and AI-driven tools that are reshaping how we teach multilingual learners.
• Cultural and Cognitive Benefits: Explore how translanguaging and biliteracy not only foster cross-cultural understanding but also enhance cognitive development and prepare students for a global workforce.
• Policy and Implementation Insights: Learn about integrating these practices into educational policies and classrooms and hear real-world challenges and successes.

This edWeb podcast is of interest to PreK-5 teachers, school leaders, district leaders, and education technology leaders.

Age of Learning
Helping children build a strong foundation for academic success and a lifelong love of learning

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by TeachRock.
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Join Grammy Award-winning artist and Black Eyed Peas’ co-founder Taboo Nawasha, celebrated educator and activist Dr. Joely Proudfit, collaborating teacher Jocelyn Aguilera, and TeachRock to celebrate Native American Heritage Month through the powerful lens of music!

This special event offers free resources to guide teachers in educating students about the rich cultural history of Native American communities, contemporary issues such as identity and cultural appropriation, and key moments in American history reimagined from a Native perspective.

Listeners explore lessons aligned with the award-winning documentary RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World, which tells the story of a profound and essential, yet previously overlooked, chapter in the history of American music: the Indigenous influence. The standards-aligned TeachRock RUMBLE lesson plans bring this story into classrooms, promoting a more inclusive and culturally responsive learning environment through music during Native American Heritage Month and beyond.

This edWeb podcast is of interest to K-12 teachers, librarians, school leaders, and district leaders.

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TeachRock
An arts integration curriculum that uses the history of pop music and culture to help engage student

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Heggerty.
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Join us for an engaging edWeb podcast featuring a dynamic discussion on strategies and practices driving literacy success in K-5 classrooms. Moderated by Marjorie Bottari, Director of Content at Heggerty, this panel highlights insights from three distinguished literacy leaders:

• Dr. Carrie Willer, Director of Elementary Education (5K-5) at Appleton Area School District
• Dr. Gyimah Whitaker, Superintendent at City Schools of Decatur
• Shanna Beber, Ed.S., Executive Director of Literacy at the Louisiana Department of Education

The panelists share their approaches to fostering literacy growth within their schools and districts. Topics include effective leadership practices, innovative instructional methods, and the challenges and successes they have experienced.

Whether you are an administrator, literacy coach, or educator, this edWeb podcast offers valuable perspectives and actionable insights to improve K-5 literacy outcomes in your own school communities. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from leading experts and enhance your understanding of effective literacy strategies.

Heggerty
Together, we are committed to changing lives through the joy of reading, one child at a time.

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by PERTS.
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A recent Gallup survey shows student engagement has fallen in recent years, with only 47% of high school students feeling engaged in their education. What is the missing link to engaging students? Student voice.

Students who believe they have a voice in school are eight times more engaged and seven times more likely to be academically motivated than students who do not believe they have a voice. Elevating student voice regarding students’ own learning experiences can produce significantly greater outcomes. So, how do you create a school culture that values student voice? Join this edWeb podcast to learn from district and school leaders who have made student voice a priority, and:

• Learn how to create a culture that values student voice
• Gain a framework for collecting student voice data
• Hear about successes, challenges, and lessons learned when shifting school culture

Listeners receive:

• The field guide series, From Data to Impact: Leveraging Student Voice Data for Meaningful Change, which includes: 1. Setting the Foundation, 2. Supporting the Adults, and 3. Partnering with Students
• An infographic on the learning conditions that drive student engagement and achievement

This edWeb podcast is designed for school and district leaders, professional development leaders, SEL counselors, grades 6-12 teachers, and anyone passionate about school culture and climate.

PERTS
Evidence-based solutions for student motivation, persistence, and success.

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Collaborative Classroom.
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Quality, as an adjective, is subjective, so how do you ensure your teaching team is fostering the optimal environment for quality interactions with children? Join early childhood educators and researchers in an exploration of just what it means to provide quality interactions. Learn how your environment can create space for child choice and agency while using teacher influence for planned experiences that meet learning objectives for each child’s development.

If your goals include increasing equitable outcomes, developing child confidence and capability, and expanding teacher efficacy through positive relationships then this edWeb podcast is for you!

Learn the impact of quality interactions and steps you can take to maximize quality interactions in your preschool or TK learning environment. You leave with concrete steps to support a sense of security and belonging while providing a root system to strengthen cognitive, social, and emotional development through high-quality interactions in any early childhood learning environment.

This edWeb podcast is of interest to PreK and TK teachers, tutors, administrators, district leaders, and community-based organizations.

Collaborative Classroom
Developing proficient readers, writers, and independent learners

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Heinemann.
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One of our main goals as teachers is to help students grow knowledge and understanding of the past, present, and future world around them. Some of the best tools we have to achieve this goal are texts, intentional conversations, and writing. Join us in this session as we explore frameworks and guiding questions for building text sets for interactive read-aloud that elevate student knowledge, understanding, and critical thinking.

During this edWeb podcast, listeners explore considerations and practices for:

• Selecting and analyzing texts around a connecting idea, central theme, or area of study
• Layering texts in a set to grow knowledge and understanding
• Planning thinking, talking, and writing opportunities with individual texts and across a text set

This edWeb podcast is of interest to K-8 teachers, school leaders, and district leaders.

Heinemann Publishing
Publisher of resources and provider of services for educators from kindergarten through college

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Presence.
The edLeader Panel recording can be accessed here.

Among the many responsibilities of educators is to identify and recommend students for special education evaluations. But in the wake of the pandemic, more students are showing signs they need specialized support, and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between temporary academic setbacks and deeper learning needs. How can we ensure all students receive the targeted resources they need, regardless of the underlying cause?

Join us for an expert-led edWeb podcast on navigating special education identification in the post-pandemic era. Listeners:

• Understand the current landscape of special education assessment and evaluation
• Learn strategies to help schools differentiate pandemic-related struggles from long-term learning needs and effectively distribute resources
• Discover innovative, scalable approaches to conducting comprehensive evaluations drawing from real-world district examples
• Understand family perspectives throughout the assessment process

Leave equipped with actionable strategies to lead your school or district in meeting diverse student needs effectively and equitably. This edWeb podcast is of interest to PreK-12 school leaders, district leaders, directors of special education, special education administrators, and student services officers.

Presence
Solutions to empower all who serve children with diverse needs.

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by CORE Learning.
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Too often, Black Language is treated as something to “correct” rather than recognized as a legitimate language system with its own rules, grammar, and structure. This mindset reflects deeply ingrained beliefs and attitudes that not only undermine students’ linguistic heritage but also limit the effectiveness of structured literacy by overlooking the linguistic strengths Black Language-speaking students bring to their learning.

In this third session of CORE Learning’s Structured Literacy and Language Diversity Week: Fall ‘24 Series, Dr. Jasmine Rogers—a leading expert on Black Language and the Science of Reading—explains how even a few hours of instruction on Black English can help teachers recognize unconscious bias and enhance structured literacy instruction. Drawing from her classroom experience and research, she challenges the outdated belief that Black English hinders academic success and demonstrates how affirming it as an asset enables students to build on their knowledge, boosting literacy skills and confidence.

By listening to this edWeb podcast, you gain evidence-based instructional practices that empower you to:

• Reflect on and adjust your beliefs and attitudes toward Black Language
• Support Black Language-speaking students by leveraging their linguistic strengths
• Address unconscious bias to foster a more inclusive classroom environment
• Make your literacy instruction more reflective of students’ lived experiences

Learn how even small shifts in your beliefs, attitudes, and literacy approach can lead to meaningful improvements. This edWeb podcast is of interest to K-12 teachers, librarians, school leaders, district leaders, and education technology leaders.

CORE Learning
Transform teaching and learning so that every student thrives.

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by CORE Learning.
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Language systems are interconnected, and for multilingual learners, their home languages actively shape how they acquire English. Recognizing and building upon these connections is crucial to providing meaningful instruction. In this edWebinar with Dr. Antonio Fierro, we explore how phonology—the study of speech sounds—strengthens structured literacy by tapping into these relationships. Through cross-linguistic transfer, phonology helps students build on the strengths of their home languages, enabling them to apply those skills to their English literacy development.

Dr. Fierro’s career focus on positionality—a well-known concept in cognitive science that explains how students juggle the cognitive demands of learning multiple languages—ties all of this work together. While widely recognized in research, it hasn’t yet made its way into most classrooms. This session aims to change that. We show how positionality helps educators better recognize the connections between students’ languages and apply this understanding to structured literacy.

In this second session of CORE Learning’s Structured Literacy and Language Diversity Week: Fall ‘24 Series, you gain practical, evidence-based practices for using phonology and cross-linguistic transfer, along with tools to advocate for policies that fully address the needs of multilingual learners. Leave equipped and empowered to ensure multilingual learners thrive within the Science of Reading framework.

This edWeb podcast is of interest to PreK-12 teachers, school leaders, and district leaders.

CORE Learning
Transform teaching and learning so that every student thrives.

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